The placeConstituency · South East · Electorate 79,169 · 2023 boundaries

Aylesbury.

Labour Party MP Laura Kyrke-Smith holds the seat on 30.2% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentLaura Kyrke-Smith · Labour Party
CouncilBuckinghamshire
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001071
Electorate · 2024
79.2k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
30.2%
Labour Party · +1.3pp over Con
Settlements
14
Largest: Aylesbury
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
20.2
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

A newcomer to a safe Conservative seat turned marginal, Kyrke-Smith has used her first two years to build a visible local record. She successfully campaigned for a Best Start Family Hub in Aylesbury -- confirmed in March 2026 -- and secured £216,633 in government funding for Buckinghamshire family services. Her most striking parliamentary initiative is "Sophie's Law," a private member's bill on perinatal mental health access, introduced after the death of a friend during pregnancy and backed by calls to end what she described as a "postcode lottery" for pregnant women's mental health care.

Her parliamentary engagement is solid: she votes in 89% of divisions, above the Commons average, and has made 175 contributions across 143 debates -- a notably active speech record for a first-term MP. Her speeches concentrate on defence, the economy, social care and health. She votes with Labour on every recorded division, making her a 100% party-line voter with no rebel votes. Her stance profile places her strongly behind workers' rights and progressive taxation, more cautiously behind immigration control and welfare expansion. On assisted dying she sits slightly to the sceptical side of her parliamentary colleagues, though the gap is modest.

The deviations worth noting are on parliamentary scrutiny -- she scores higher than the Labour average -- and on Lords scrutiny, where she votes consistently against Lords amendments, in line with government positions. No committee roles are listed. Local news sentiment over the past 90 days is broadly neutral across a high volume of coverage, with crime dominating local headlines; few of those articles engage directly with Kyrke-Smith's activity.

30.2%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
9
Wards · 27 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.9 wards · 27 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Aston Clinton Bierton(3 seats)Chapple · Ward · Collins5,485Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Aylesbury East(3 seats)Winn · Gaster · Hunter-Watts3,900Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Aylesbury North(3 seats)Khan · Morgan · Dixon3,862Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Aylesbury North West(3 seats)Christensen · Wadhwa · Hussain3,218Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Aylesbury South East(3 seats)Thompson · Summers · Chapple4,308Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Aylesbury South West(3 seats)Baldwin · Hussain · Raja3,237Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Aylesbury West(3 seats)Poland · James · Lambert3,872Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Ivinghoe(3 seats)Poll · Town · Brazier5,366Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021
Wing(3 seats)Bond · Blamires · Cooper4,547Buckinghamshire ConMay 2021

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 02Settlements.14 named places

The seat’s population is concentrated in Aylesbury (77,793), with Rural & dispersed (6,304) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 110,145.

city 77,793town 11,317village 21,035

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Aylesbury77,793city
Rural & dispersed6,304town
Aston Clinton5,013town
Pitstone4,319village
Wing (Buckinghamshire)2,979village
Stoke Mandeville1,780village
Showing 6 of 14·All 14 settlements
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate64.1%57.1%+12%
Owner-occupied68.7%63.1%+9%
Private rented16.7%20.0%-16%
Social rented14.5%16.8%-13%

Ethnicity.

White79.1%
Asian12.5%
Black3.4%
Mixed3.5%
Other1.5%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 49.3% Female 50.7% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£31,200
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£40,000
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
4,970
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
47
31 primary · 8 secondary
GCSE pass
74.8%
Attainment 8: 54.3

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£416m
Taxpayers63,000
Median per taxpayer£3,380
Mean per taxpayer£6,570

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk · 12-month rolling

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
20.2
-3% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
6.7
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
41% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences8.3
Shoplifting2.5
Public order1.6
Anti-social behaviour1.5
Vehicle crime1.3
Criminal damage & arson1.3
Other theft1.2

Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop

Showing 7 of 15·All 15 categories — full monthly trend & settlement breakdown
§ 06Election history.5 contests · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Laura Kyrke-SmithWONLab15,08130.2
Rob ButlerCon14,45128.9
Steve LambertLD10,44020.9
Lesley TaylorRef6,74613.5
Julie AtkinsGrn2,5905.2
Jan GajdosInd5161.0
Richard WildingInd1160.2

Turnout 49,940

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Rob ButlerCon54.0
2017David LidingtonCon55.0
2015David LidingtonCon50.7
2010Lidington, DavidCon52.2
Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
SchoolsDfE · attainment data
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission